Proverbs 6:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, and like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 91:3 : 3 Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence.
  • Ps 124:7 : 7 Our soul has escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we have escaped.
  • Prov 1:17 : 17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
  • Ps 11:1 : 1 In the LORD I put my trust; how can you say to my soul, 'Flee as a bird to your mountain'?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 6:6-11
    6 verses
    77%

    6Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:

    7Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,

    8Provides her food in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.

    9How long will you sleep, O sluggard? when will you arise out of your sleep?

    10A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

    11So shall your poverty come upon you like a traveler, and your need like an armed man.

  • Prov 6:2-4
    3 verses
    77%

    2You are snared by the words of your mouth, you are taken by the words of your mouth.

    3Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, when you have come into the hand of your friend; go, humble yourself, and make sure your friend.

    4Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.

  • Ps 124:7
    76%

    7Our soul has escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we have escaped.

  • Prov 7:22-23
    2 verses
    73%

    22He goes after her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

    23Until a dart strikes through his liver; as a bird hastes to the snare, and does not know that it is for his life.

  • Prov 1:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    17Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

    18And they lie in wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.

  • Ps 141:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9Keep me from the snares they have laid for me, and the traps of the workers of iniquity.

    10Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I escape completely.

  • Ps 91:3
    72%

    3Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence.

  • Amos 3:5
    71%

    5Can a bird fall into a snare upon the earth, where no trap is set for it? Shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?

  • Job 6:23
    71%

    23Or Deliver me from the enemy's hand? Or Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?

  • Amos 2:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14Therefore flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not reinforce his strength, neither shall the mighty save himself:

    15Neither shall he stand that handles the bow; and he who is swift of foot shall not save himself: neither shall he who rides the horse save himself.

  • Job 18:8-10
    3 verses
    71%

    8For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks upon a snare.

    9The trap shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.

    10The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

  • Prov 22:5
    70%

    5Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse; he who guards his soul shall be far from them.

  • Amos 5:19
    70%

    19As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

  • Ps 11:1
    70%

    1In the LORD I put my trust; how can you say to my soul, 'Flee as a bird to your mountain'?

  • Jer 48:6
    69%

    6Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.

  • Prov 2:16
    69%

    16To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the stranger who flatters with her words;

  • Prov 12:27
    69%

    27The lazy man does not roast what he took in hunting, but diligence is a man's precious possession.

  • Prov 2:12
    69%

    12To deliver you from the way of the evil man, from the man who speaks perverse things;

  • Prov 27:8
    69%

    8As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his place.

  • Prov 24:11
    69%

    11If you hold back from rescuing those taken away to death, and those ready to be slain;

  • Lam 4:19
    69%

    19Our persecutors were swifter than the eagles of the sky; they pursued us on the mountains, they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.

  • Prov 6:24-26
    3 verses
    69%

    24To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

    25Do not lust after her beauty in your heart; neither let her take you with her eyelids.

    26For by means of a harlot a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

  • Job 38:39
    68%

    39Will you hunt the prey for the lion, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

  • Job 22:10
    68%

    10Therefore snares are all around you, and sudden fear troubles you;

  • Prov 7:5
    68%

    5That they may keep you from the strange woman, from the stranger who flatters with her words.

  • Song 8:14
    68%

    14Make haste, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young deer on the mountains of spices.

  • Prov 4:15
    68%

    15Avoid it, do not pass by it, turn from it, and pass away.

  • Prov 3:26
    68%

    26For the LORD shall be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being caught.

  • Deut 22:6
    68%

    6If a bird's nest happens to be before you in the way, in any tree, or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young.

  • Prov 22:25
    68%

    25Lest you learn his ways and get a snare to your soul.

  • Ps 31:4
    68%

    4Pull me out of the net that they have secretly laid for me: for you are my strength.

  • Prov 5:19
    68%

    19Let her be as the loving deer and graceful doe; let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and be ravished always with her love.

  • Ps 10:9
    68%

    9He lies in wait secretly, as a lion in his den; he lies in wait to catch the poor; he catches the poor when he draws him into his net.

  • Exod 21:13
    68%

    13However, if he did not lie in wait, but God delivered him into his hand, then I will appoint a place for you where he may flee.

  • Ps 140:5
    67%

    5The proud have hidden a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set traps for me. Selah.